Facts and feelings made my decision — This is my final post on Medium. Day by day I have been learning that Medium isn’t the right platform for me or my writing. There are a number of reasons I won’t list, but be assured they all lean the same direction. Also, it’s become increasingly clear that my…

Second cataract gone, and recovery is underway — I’ve now had surgery on both eyes to remove cataracts, and today I’m waiting on the healing process. Two and a half weeks after the first surgery, the right eye seems close to where it ought to be. Meanwhile, only a few days after the second surgery, the left eye…

Two more days until Part Two — The cataract surgery on my right eye was successful, but the full month for healing is ongoing. On Wednesday March 23 I’ll have cataract surgery on my left eye. Then there’ll be a month of healing for that one. In general, I’m seeing better with the right eye, but progress…

Time for a remedy — Here’s the problem: I have difficulty seeing clearly. Just about everything is fuzzy. Oh, and my glasses are up to date. I have half-decent moments when I can read and write on the computer, but I never know when those times will be because reading is difficult most of the…

Do you want to communicate or just be trendy? — You probably have a word or phrase you’d prefer never to hear or read again. I have several, and I’m not even referring to profanity. I’m talking about words and clusters of them that make sense in one context but not another, but seem to be used and accepted without…

A poem with a fleeting kind of love — The Tennis Players By Walter Rice We are the tennis players. We are the tennis watchers. We grip the racket and gravity holds down the ball. Sprinting and stopping, stepping and swinging, we court a small, bound volume of air that if not for its fuzzy little jacket could be almost anywhere. The…